I'd rather lose everything I got before I'd work like a slave."

[billyoc]

Moncure Plywood, strikers stand ground

MONCURE - A rare Triangle-area strike is about to enter its third month, but neither the workers on the picket line nor the company, Moncure Plywood, sound close to giving in.

It's not easy for either. While the company struggles to make do with unskilled replacement workers, the strikers are living off $150 a week each from their union and from contributions from other unions and charities. Some, like James Waddell, 43, of Lee County, have had to take part-time jobs.

"I got bills, man," said Waddell, who found work driving a van three days a week. "But I'm not going back in there without a union contract. I'd rather lose everything I got before I'd work like a slave."

Strikes are relatively rare anywhere, involving only about 1 percent of union contracts, said James Andrews, president of the N.C. State AFL-CIO. That and the fact that this state is one of the least unionized in the nation make them even more unusual in North Carolina.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1228730.html

These are the kind of people I like to hang around with. :)

[pansypoo53219]

1. we have a strike in Milwaukee. garbagemen.

fighting the switch to 401k from pensions. smart guys. the company is playing hardball tho.

[billyoc]

2. Oooh... Nothing like a good garbage strike.

:evilgrin: